Britain's Most Out Of Touch Landlord

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[@sniffs5164]

When he said "they do pay rent" I howled 😂 was like getting a call in from Alan Partridge

[@tonymcfeisty2478]

And when he said "when I sell my house it's no longer available to rent" good hopefully it gets bought by someone to live in themselves, or does he think a house disappears and no longer exists once it's sold by a Landlord. guy is proof you don't need much thinking ability to be a landlord in a rigged system.

[@juliewake4585]

It’s as bizarre as that isn’t it?

[@Tukulti-Ninurta]

Correct. Homes do not disappear when landlords sell them. The myth of the disappearing homes is actually a commonly used landlord argument. However, the fact that homes do not disappear does put a question mark over whether this eviction ban is necessary. The pandemic has not decreased the number of homes available. The eviction ban does seem to assume the landlords are irrational and they are going to evict tenants and leave their properties empty rather than reducing their rent. Of course, it could be that they are irrational.

[@dwc1964]

@@Tukulti-Ninurta There is, in fact, more vacant housing than there are homeless people - because it is indeed more profitable to sit on the asset while it continues to appreciate, and get various economic benefits from merely owning it, than to rent it out at a rate that the average working person can afford. That is literally how it works, and is working.

[@Tukulti-Ninurta]

Some people keep their properties empty, but we are talking about here or people who made the decision to become landlords.

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

I reported my landlord for failing on multiple issues including damp, rotten sash windows, two taps that weren't working, no electrical testing done, no smoke detectors, faulty cooker and failing to do a gas check for over five years. The landlord was forced to make good on repairs and was then told he was free to dispose of the property or otherwise. I received a notice to quit and got made homeless. If landlords fail to maintain a property they should be required to sell it to the local authority at a greatly reduced rate.

[@SamHutchinsonBass]

In a country where ground rent exists and a landowner can charge you for having your flat, house or business on 'their' bit of earth, reform is needed from the top down.

[@atlanticx100]

In the 21st century when I realize to this day new homes are still going up on lease hold land I am WTF.

[@akastewart]

Surely you mean 'from the ground up', Sam. 😉

[@atlanticx100]

@@akastewart If that was for me my grammar was always crap. If not to whom are you referring :)

[@SamHutchinsonBass]

@@akastewart ha, yes!

[@akastewart]

@@atlanticx100 No worries, Martin. It was just a joke riffing on the 'ground rent' and 'top down' parts of Sam's original comment. 😀 (YT doesn't always make it clear who replies are aimed at.)

[@itsmeitsme99]

Ash Sarkar lives with unicorns in fairyland. Bless her, she's lovely.

[@chrisparker5796]

Where do you live mate.

[@itsmeitsme99]

@@chrisparker5796 Planet Earth 🌎

[@chrisparker5796]

@@itsmeitsme99 bet that sucks

[@itsmeitsme99]

Yes.

[@MrMmcdaid9]

The Houses of Parliament is stuffed full of these extraordinary landlords, they even get paid to do it : is that what people of lower-than-political classes are supposed to aspire to?

[@robertwinslade3104]

To add another point to Ash's criticism of Right-To-Buy, even though the scheme was supposedly intended to reduce public expenditure on housing by passing it off into the private sector, public expenditure has actually increased considerably. It costs taxpayers MASSIVE sums of money in housing benefits when so many low-income people are living in exorbitantly expensive privately rented accommodation, and of course that money now goes straight into the pockets of the wealthy instead of back into the public purse. I would say that Right-To-Buy was an abject failure if it weren't working EXACTLY as intended

[@therealrobertbirchall]

If it's a tory scheme it's a scam to make tory voters and MPs richer

[@robertwinslade3104]

@@therealrobertbirchall damn right

[@robertwinslade3104]

@@jamyDodger yep; because right-to-buy also shunted much of the responsibility for building new housing into the private sector, and affordable housing isn't profitable so it doesn't get built. Right-to-buy is honestly one of the worst things the Conservatives have done in the last half century or so

[@robertwinslade3104]

@@jamyDodger gotta maximise those profit margins

[@daftjunk2008]

The greatest upward transfer of wealth under the guise of 'helping the people'

[@Professional_Youtube_Commenter]

battery powered smoke alarms are disallowed for rental properties. They have to be mains powered (ususally off the lighting). So he's breaking a law there. So you can imagine what other laws he's not complying with.

[@SamHutchinsonBass]

Mains alarms still need to have battery backup so it could be this that needs replacing. Needs doing once every 2 or 3 years, so possibly longer than the tenant is living there. I'd say it's perfectly reasonable to ask the landlord to pay for it.

[@therealrobertbirchall]

Mains with battery back up, Bluetooth linked if there is more than one in the building.

[@stevechappell5777]

New regulations have had to be met by June this year, I believe, where all rented properties have to have a wired in smoke alarm system as part of the 5 yearly electrical safety check. This would be a dedicated ring not part of the lighting circuitry. It is something that came in in a rush in the last 6-8 months, though so if this landlord has been having problems with a tenant for a year or more he might well not have been able to access the property, especially if the tenant is barricading the door to prevent access and therefore work being done.

[@AndrewOliverHome]

Even Adam Smith warned that landlords love to reap where they have not sowed.

[@hypernorm4802]

Smoke alarms are the landlords’ responsibility, btw.

[@Flash_Mexxy]

Yes, but also any idiot can do it. I wouldn't ring my landlord for that, or anything else I'd be quicker doing myself. Some people do take the piss.

[@powderandpaint14]

It depends where they are. Someone may not be tallenough to reach and may have an illness or disability that means they can't stand on a chair or a step ladder to get up and change the batteries themselves.

[@heatherhanks4869]

My friends fire alarm is really weird it was set up by the council. I’m not sure about all the details and can ask . But when it started making that one off beeping noise every few mins . I’m like no problem I will change the battery. But it was a closed until, it had a phone number on it, I called it and they told me they would send out a replacement. Which took about two days . My self I’ve never come across this any where else . She lives in her own home , she bought the house 25 years ago. She even had a load against the house to fix the roof that would only have to be painted back when she died. I’m sad to say she did pass away dec 2019. I miss her , but I do believe that cOVID-19 would have killed her she had been battling against cancer for five years but she was also prone to picking up every cold and flu chest infection of what’s going.the fire alarm still works.

[@rock10234]

Not quite, in terms of the battery mentioned here, it's actually the tenants job as it is the tenants job to test. With the exception if it's a hardwired fire alarm like you see in shops for example. However the landlord does have to test the fire alarm at the beginning of every new tenancy. I know this because I had a really shitty Lanlord who did not fulfill his fire duties or for that matter gas/electric duties either.

[@lorrainehuddart1402]

Everything is the landlords responsibility these days. Can’t the tenant take responsibility for any thing. Sigh!

[@davidbeesley6417]

My mother passed away when I was 10, my aunt and uncle kindly took myself and my sister in as by dad wasn't around, they used to money from letting out my mum's house to support my sister and I growing up. Not all landlords are scum, not all properties were 'brought'.

[@stevechappell5777]

Quite. Your narrative doesn't fit the tone of the rest of the landlord knocking rhetoric being recorded here so it needed saying. Not all landlords are bad any more than all tenants are going to play the system but some inevitably are and do. Trying to stereotype all of either group as a bad lot is just playing to the firebrands. Even this landlord may have had really good reasons why he needed to sell the property. Care home costs are one reason why one's savings are invested and when they become due, realising assets enables them to be paid. BTW those on benefits with few savings get all their care costs met by the state while property owners do not

[@carnivore2938]

we do it to avoid being a drain on the state later on - im a landlord and an nhs worker

[@adambrickley1119]

Blaiming migration for low wages, landlords for the cost of housing, next installment blaiming farmers for high food prices.

[@gravesplendour3481]

Love the slogan: 'Landlords, get a real job'.

[@chrissiesparrow3550]

ahaha i love that

[@MrAlexandre3213]

Where do you think they initially for the money from ?

[@formerafro1199]

@@MrAlexandre3213 for many, their parents. Sure, there can be good individual landlords and I'm sure some of them do work for the property they acquire, but as a class they are the old vestiges of feudal society. They are parasites of parasites. Leeches not only on working people but also on the capitalist class as well. We know this because the upper limit of what can be charged as rent depends not on the value they provide through managing and maintaing a property but rather how productive an area is. They impose downward pressure on local profits and upward pressure on labour costs but ultimately it is workers who suffer the most in this arrangement. Crushed between landlords desire for ever greater portions of their wages and the bosses that refuse to increase those wages.

[@MrAlexandre3213]

@@formerafro1199 everyone has the right to monetize their time and energy into whatever assets and business models they please.... Shouldn't wealth created by one generation not be passed onto the next ? We are not all equal some are more savvy and entrepreneurial than others there will always be a devide We live in a world of financialy ileterate people who want something for nothing Don't know and asset from a liability How is it parasitic to preserve and pass on wealth ? And build upon it ... Renting a property is a mutual agreement both parties must fullfil the contractual obligations and yes that includes landlords maintaining such asset to an adequate standard We live in a competitive world and those who are smart and navigate through the system in the best and most effective manner will always come out on top If you don't want to work for some one or rent from someone you can enter into into direct competition with them and strive to achieve a better service at a better price point providing better value for money and therefore ensuring your very own time and energy is giving you a the best possible return and preservation going forward The smallest minority is the individual it is up to the Individual to succeed Everyone has a choice - Spend , Save , Invest Every pound you spend is a vote ... Vote wisely Nothing is free and no one is equal

[@douggore9584]

Thatcher introduced right to buy, because she knew that people with mortgages were much less likely to go on strike.

[@alexritchie4586]

Did you know UKIP's Work and Pensions Spokesman, Andrew Charamlambous, is a landlord who is not only the most prolific renter of properties to 'illegal' immigrants in the UK, but also one of its biggest Housing Benefit recipients (£826K last year)?

[@carlmorris3631]

Really wow

[@stevechappell5777]

How are they 'illegal'? How many of them are there. If there are enough, of course the cost to house them will be high. Every property costs something to live in, even if you build it yourself you have to pay for the land it is on, council tax and utilities costs. Even social housing comes with a demand for rent. Do you think that would be free? Who is providing housing for migrants or asylum seekers otherwise? If you are saying there is a scam going on, what form is it taking? If you have properties being set aside for rented accommodation and the tenants cannot pay, should they be evicted and live on the streets? I am no supporter of UKIP but trying to conflate a member or supporter of a political (laugh) party with property rentals hasn't been made illegal, has it?

[@mireillescott3647]

No one should be allowed to own more than one home

[@adriftinaboat3452]

In my day the term ‘Landlord’ was someone who owned a pub…. Bring back council houses and send these shysters (along with their unearned wealth), packing.

[@James-mb3je]

You presume it's unearned, perhaps these private landlords also built roads, schools, shops and other infrastructure to improve the property value.

[@chrisparker5796]

@@James-mb3je in your dreams.

[@chrisparker5796]

Let's lynch the Land Lord Man.....

[@peterobbins5801]

@@chrisparker5796 Sounds like you have had a very bad LL experience.

[@chrisparker5796]

@@peterobbins5801 Food, Clothes and Shelter..basic necessities, not a privilege.

[@dwc1964]

9:00 - one of my favorite things to note is that the single most pivotal statistic for the quality of life in a city is how many hours does it take for the typical working person to make the typical month's rent - because so many of the things that make life in a city _good_ depend on that one thing. Also I believe that _all_ rental housing should be social and/or collective housing - no more private landlords.

[@Valentin-oc5nh]

look at vienna! works well

[@gusinfante]

You know this is a sick society when Dickens reads as if it had been written last year.

[@mrgilgamesh4252]

Christ, don't give them ideas >< 'Revitalising Northern infastructure' could be a euphemism for reintroducing work houses >

[@gilesdunk7416]

What sort of "good landlord" doesn't know whose responsibility it is to make sure there is a working smoke alarm? Keep up the good work Novara Media. 👏

[@jake751]

So if a person is disabled how are they supposed to change it 🤔 it is law that the landlord provides smoke alarms and carbon dioxide detecters. I sued my last landlord and won my case.

[@allandavies1642]

Good reason for council housing . Thatcher and Co, really f...cked the housing situation by forcing councils to sell ,and then inhibited councils from replacing their housing stock to open up for profit to Private Landlords. This has skewed the cost of rents and availablity of housing.

[@adriftinaboat3452]

So true. The caller probably benefited from Thatcher’s council house sell off.

[@ChavvyCommunist]

Landlords in response to calls for affordable housing: "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen".

[@carnivore2938]

we do it to avoid being a drain on the state later on - im a landlord and an nhs worker

[@Andrew-ys9vb]

@@carnivore2938 Landlords are nothing but a drain

[@jimmythemac869]

This is what labour should be focusing on!

[@ceaseless246]

they won’t

[@mygreatbigfoot1679]

They were too busy blowing up homes in Iraq etc, costs a lotta money to do that. They revelled in bringing in Polish plumbers in order to provide themselves with cheap skilled labourers to convert their second homes into overcrowded multi-occupation slums. They didn’t want to train their own kids/unemployed they left it to the Polish. New labour=Old Tory.

[@jimmythemac869]

@Zockblatt Shickleblender I didn't know what a Fabian was until now.

[@tomlucas4890]

Just how many MPs or their families are landlords, there is something far wrong with the housing market in this country. Nothing will be done.

[@charlottemarceau8062]

I don't know why we aren't out in the streets every day protesting EVERY aspect of renting or even buying a HOME (where you live!)

[@EarlHare]

porn, netflix and fast food delivery. That's why.

[@charlottemarceau8062]

Agree

[@danksheev66]

would be based

[@jake751]

@@EarlHare 🤪🤪🤪

[@alistairbeckett9171]

Right to buy for private tenants? Cap rents to the maximum allowable under benefits schemes? It should be a human right not a transferable asset.

[@randyvalantino6850]

The benifit scheme is capped per bedroom . If they bring in right to buy the landlord would never give a tenancy longer than 6 months or short term . So should people who stay in a hotel have right to buy

[@alistairbeckett9171]

@@randyvalantino6850 I can’t pretend to have thought it through if I’m honest so I should have kept my mouth shut but I do believe the massive cost of housing has distorted society. Knowledge, skills and experience should be valued more than assets in my opinion.

[@andrewmallory3854]

Right to buy for tenants of private landlords? This could be a labour policy that would generate enormous support. But Labour does not do policies anymore - silly me.

[@stevechappell5777]

Can't see that flying. Selling off publicly owned housing worked for Thatcher but trying to take privately owned property to give to somebody else is something else. Wanting a cheap deal is everyone's dream but if tenants aren't affluent enough to get in on the housing market already, they'd need a below market rate by quite a way to be able to afford the price. Should the gap be made up by govt? Or should current owners take the hit? When Thatcher pulled her sleight of hand to buy more Tory votes, many people bought but then sold as soon as they could to reap a profit. And publicly owned housing was reduced dramatically because of it.

[@spare5808]

If you want to be more depressed/furious about this, work out the total rent you've paid since your first rental to now...

[@THC-TheHereticalcomplainer]

I just did. I don't recommend. 1 Star!

[@_Information_]

Don't like you.

[@detritiv0re144]

These people need to organise and refuse to leave en mass. Get together and pass the problems back up the chain where they belong.

[@hlund73]

Momentum are actively fighting evictions, Labour leadership conspicuous by his absence.

[@allegory6393]

@@hlund73 Blairite Labour, what we currently have, is the landlord party, just as much as the Tories and LibDems are.

[@arasefe]

Housing like health, education, energy and transportation is something that should not be privatized. It is an essential human right.

[@archivist17]

Superb Ash Burn in her first comment! And Michael as clear and direct as always.

[@princeofchetarria5375]

We should introduce a full ban on owning second properties, nationwide. And ban non UK residents (not non-citizens, just people who don’t actually live in the UK) from owning property here too.

[@AndrewOliverHome]

All property is theft. Not just second homes or rental portfolios, all property. The ownership of the moors and open spaces by private individuals is also theft from the people. This is everywhere you look, private ownership of land leads to landlords and vile trespass laws. It puts working people in debt to the property owners from the start. We have to move beyond private ownership of land and property.

[@princeofchetarria5375]

@@AndrewOliverHome personally I don’t have an issue with people owning the homes they live in, to me that makes sense and I would much rather people owned their own homes than the government owned everyone’s home tbh, but maybe there’s a better way I’m not aware of. I don’t think private individuals should be able to own more than one property or properties over a certain size, or be able to own public land such as moors and other open spaces. That’s just my two cents :)

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

I blame voters who don’t like socialism

[@GeorgeGeorgeOnly]

Socialism is for the rich. Capitalism is for the poor. I blame the Thatcherites who gave us a totally bogus economy by turning their backs on British manufacturing. Exports are how real wealth are brought into a country. But instead we have a 'service economy' which is merely a cover or front for all the massive ponsi schemes and derivative investments which create wealth for a social cast of parasites.

[@tonymcfeisty2478]

I blame voters who don't even know what socialism actually is due to a disinformation campaign by self interested media, who them vote for a rigged neoliberal system,

[@DeezN1892]

@@GeorgeGeorgeOnly no way did you just say capitalism is for the poor phahahah what

[@therealrobertbirchall]

If these landlords were patriots they would forgive people fro at least part of their unpaid rent as a gesture of national support during the biggest humanitarian criss in the UK since 1945.

[@akastewart]

If the LL owned the property outright - i.e. no mortgage - I'd possibly agree. But, most LLs are still expected to pay mortgages. Giving sitting tenants possibly 1000s in discounts which they won't be getting in turn from their mortgage lender. Thoughts?

[@therealrobertbirchall]

@@akastewart like the man said at the end of the mortgage the landlord keeps the house his tenant paid for.

[@hlund73]

@@akastewart The pandemic is supposed to have caused a boom in property values. Mortgage rates have fallen for a decade Many landlords could cut the rent and still see a bigger return over a shorter time.

[@akastewart]

@@therealrobertbirchall The tenant is unlikely to have been paying rent to the full value of the deposit + mortgage undertaken by the LL, so no, ‘the tenant’ didn’t pay for it. Doesn’t really answer the issue about the mortgage company still wanting their payment every month along the way. You can get ‘mortgage holidays’, but the deferred payments are simply spread out across the remaining mortgage period. I think the housing benefit scheme (or equivalent) is likely the right mechanism for supporting tenants unable to work as a result of the pandemic. The LL is likely contributing more tax into the national purse than the tenant, so they would already be underwriting a portion of the rent in those circumstances. All that said, I suspect there have been cases where LLs have sucked up some losses as a show of solidarity with tenants facing hardship. It’s definitely something I’d encourage LLs to explore and consider, if it’s not too financially harmful to themselves. Even as a home owner aiming to make property rental (as LL) part of my future plans, I consider the solution to be let the private rental mkt do its thing (with some regulation, ofc), but build up our social housing stock properly. Yes, it would likely dampen my rental income as a future LL and subsequently potentially reduce the standard of living I can enjoy later in life. While I’m broadly capitalist, I’m not a ‘capitalism at all costs’ kinda person. I remember what it was like to be struggling, and I won’t be trying to rinse every last £ out of tenants by going for top mkt value rental fees - as that only serves to inflate the rental fees mkt further.

[@akastewart]

@@hlund73 it only matters if the bump is permanent bc the price of the property only matters when it’s time to sell or borrow against its value. I’ve not had my home formally valued in a while, but while it’s increased substantially since I bought it, I’ve seen almost no increase in the past couple of years (according to property sites like Zoopla). I know first-hand that prices can go down as well as up, when the mkt had a 10-15% downward correction a couple of years back. Owning property assets isn’t quite the same as ‘money in the bank’. YMMV.

[@Elisacr1]

If your landlords live in your country you’re doing better than when a landlord is an off-shore landlord. The house could burn to the ground and the authorities can’t find them. It’s even worse when offshore owners own care-homes that elderly people live in. If a pandemic sweeps through the care home the government can’t hold them to account. 🇨🇦

[@BigHenFor]

400,000 tenants and their families... Holy s**t!

[@takingabreak4821]

Tip of the iceberg.. wait for the final figures. 2021 will see homeless figures rise sharply.

[@chindi17]

Being a landlord is rent-seeking meaning there is no wealth for the economy that is created. Thus the government should discourage it. It is true there is no social good that comes out of people who are landlords

[@jackwilliam2965]

Gaddafi was years ahead. He made home ownership a human right.

[@jugaloo5873]

Landlords and estate agents are fast becoming the most hated folk in the uk.

[@Professional_Youtube_Commenter]

Of course all landlords are rich. They cry that they're not rich because once they receive the rent they dish out all the money on services charges, agent fees, mortgage, maintenance etc. Then the question we all have in our minds is, why do it then? The answer is clear, you do it because the money goes into paying off an asset. That asset will be yours after the mortgage is paid off. which will be almost as liquid as cash in the bank. You could sell that property any time you like (as long as you dont have tenants in there). If you end up in a situation where you're too greedy and invest all your money into properties and circumstances change, well that's tough on you but you can't expect to kick people out of their homes to fix your mess. I'm looking forward to to no fault eviction laws to come on.

[@randyvalantino6850]

What if the tenant does not pay and trashes the house . Who pays the mortgage

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

@@randyvalantino6850 What if they don't?

[@randyvalantino6850]

@@cellbiologyshorts9105 you have to get a solicitor involved and take the tenant to court . Some tenants refuse to pay rent and refuse to move out . Yes the law is on the landlords side but it can take months to implement. Only time is on the tenants side .

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

@@randyvalantino6850 Why do you keep doing it?

[@randyvalantino6850]

@@cellbiologyshorts9105 Because if you get a good tenant it can be a good experience. But its a business not a charity . If you think you have a problem tenant you must give them no more than 6 months.

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Landlords are the definition of making money from sitting on their ass all day.

[@esm7708]

Apart from earning the money that allowed them to have a buy to let obviously. You may find it unbelievable but most landlords aren't total capitalist bastards. For example my buy to let is to pay for my children's university education because the Tories put up tuition.

[@James-mb3je]

@@esm7708 you're making a huge assumption there "earning money" Most likely they bought 20+ years ago and leveraged their own home's price increase to buy a second buy-to-let. Alternatively it was inherited.

[@esm7708]

@@James-mb3je I am a landlord and funnily enough know quite a few. This seems to be another example of socialists only looking at the next run of the ladder and completely ignoring the billions bring squirrelled away at the top.

[@tonymcfeisty2478]

@@esm7708I think you mean the "let to buy" property, unless of course you purchased it outright without the means of a loan

[@esm7708]

@@tonymcfeisty2478 well I seem to remember the small matter of a £12k deposit that I definitely had to save for that allowed me to get a mortgage. Nice argument though. Not weak at all.

[@peterwright5311]

Fuck me, the look of bewilderment when the guy says 'they are paying their rent' is hilarious. Terrible landlords i've had: - the one who wouldn't replace a toaster that caught fire and registered a suspiciously large amount of 'cousins' as voters when they didn't live at the address (yes I reported this) - the one who took me to court because some other people owed him money (he lost) - The one who failed to make improvements under a local authority order for a year and then suddenly complained that we hadn't given him access when the council came to inspect the work (there was literally a colony of slugs living under the shower because of the damp he wouldn't fix)

[@robbieg416]

Even Adam Smith hated Landlords.

[@GeorgeGeorgeOnly]

Yes, it's a landlord's house, belonging to a landlord who chose to enter into a rental agreement.

[@stevechappell5777]

The rental agreement would have had a cessation clause in it. After the usual 6 month term (or 12 month with a 6 month break clause) the tenancy becomes a rolling one where the tenant can terminate with a month's notice. The landlord has the same right to terminate but has to give two months notice. Landlords, though do not want to terminate, on the whole, because this brings forward further decorating and advertising costs in order to re-let the property. Council tax also has to be paid by the landlord on an empty property. As long as tenants are looking after the property and paying rent promptly eviction is usually (but not wholly) out of the question.

[@joinedupjon]

But he never expected he'd get fiendishly cunning tenants playing the system by paying their rent on time

[@tangaz5819]

@@joinedupjon paying their rent still though.

[@stevechappell5777]

@@joinedupjon The landlord was not eloquent. He said he had personal reasons to sell the property but didn't elaborate. Maybe he just wasn't enjoying being a private landlord and was looking to sell the property? The govt has waged a war on private landlords of late and it is far more onerous and costly than used to be the case. What his reasons were we can speculate but can't really know but if this was an urgent situation ongoing for the duration of the lockdown he could have been in financial and emotional straits because of it. Even in lockdown looking for and moving properties was possible so these tenants knew the move was inevitable and had a much longer notice period than most would be afforded. It is sad that it affects tenants adversely but when tenants move at the drop of a hat the shoe is on the other foot and little sympathy is afforded the landlord. Please note, eviction is a costly process and tenants who refuse to abide by the terms of their rental agreement presumably have a similar cavalier attitude to other areas of responsibility too. But with a govt breaking international treaties with gay abandonment, what can we expect.

[@outherewildinb2874]

@@stevechappell5777 Do you know the tenants situation? Maybe they were shielding/housed with a vulnerable person themselves? The fact that otherwise they'd have less notice isn't a bonus. You don't know their financial situation either, nor their capabilities to move -- moving isn't cheap when you don't have the support or means. Maybe the agreement they had with that landlord was better than comparable rentals. Who knows, point is - we don't, and it's the landlord who takes that 'risk', not the rentiers. It may be his house (by the title), but for all intents and purposes, that could very well be someone's *home* . Unmitigated gall to ring in to complain.

[@TheInternetIsDeadToMe]

Listening to the landlord was so painful. No self awareness and utterly unable to understand what he is saying and why it’s inhumane. A broken system that nobody wants to take responsibility for. If this situation is left long enough don’t be surprised if an entire generation of frustrated people drag these lords out of their homes and just take them with force. That’s usually where it leads.

[@Fatman311]

I hate landlords so very, very much. There might be some OK ones out there, having to wade through an ocean of shit to find nuggets of gold just so you have somewhere to live is ridiculous though. Housing should be a right, not a bloody business.

[@CARS_548]

Get off you backside work harder and buy your own simple !!!

[@ThePowned123]

@@CARS_548 lol really good impression of a dumbass almost had me going there haha

[@Fatman311]

@@CARS_548 No, what we should be doing is stopping landlords buying up so many properties, in order to let house prices fall to amounts that people can actually afford, while also increasing availability.

[@DoktorSean]

"Playing the system... they know they can't be evicted whatever they do" Andrew Castle really needed to labour this point. What is "whatever they do"? If these tenants truly were that awful, he could surely give some examples with ease - which he just doesn't.

[@markwilliams3174]

Landlordism has destroyed Australian politics. We need more academic and journalistic scrutiny of landlordism

[@janisrands2087]

Biased ....not all property owners are like this. Plenty of renters are terrible. There is good and bad on Both sides. why is it so hard to build affordable housing....that is the question.

[@syncswim]

Anecdotal experience, but it's oftentimes easier to negotiate and get concessions when renting from real estate conglomerates vs. the mythical single-property owner. The former tends to acquiesce on renter rights to save time and effort whereas the latter is often a clueless pig who will fight tooth and nail and try to get away with as much as they can like the one in the clip.

[@chicken4986]

I recognise the need for rental property and I understand why people tie their money into tangible assets that would offer better inflation than any bank can currently offer. That being said, being a landlord shouldn’t be someone’s primary source of income and people from poorer economic backgrounds should not be paying for other people to live cushty lives while they struggle. There needs to be a fairer system for tenants and a stricter one for landlords that fail to provide nice, liveable spaces.

[@craigthebrute8658]

@@waynemongo worst possible idea

[@daftjunk2008]

Build public housing, and apply a land value tax (offsetting by reducing income tax). Only then will 'work pay' for the masses. Neoliberal economies worldwide are currently eating themselves - rent is an extraction from the economy (the opposite of value added)

[@hlund73]

Remember the Tories are the party of business. Obviously why they're OK with "UK PLC" constantly forking out for what are really fixed assets.

[@julielevinge266]

This landlord seems unable to understand that this is tenants home!! Remember being taken to court in mid 70s because the previous tenant had moved out, I had continued to pay the rent. Judge ruled that as landlord had excepted cheques for rent from me that meant he’d excepted me as the tenant. Judge also recommended property to fair rents commission, rent was then reduced by them. But all these rights are no longer there??

[@confusedcynic9073]

When your lease is up, its up, at that point you have no right to live there, unless the landlord agrees to another lease.

[@Cashback13]

He's a good landlord but he won't even pay a few quid to change the batteries in smoke alarms and would rather his properly burnt down and the tenants died as a result of not having a working smoke alarm! Utterly deluded 'Convenience Culture' he doesn't have an issue and is wasting money taking them to court as they are clearly not doing anything wrong.

[@akastewart]

"He's a good landlord but he won't even pay a few quid to change the batteries in smoke alarms and would rather his properly burnt down and the tenants died as a result of not having a working smoke alarm!" I think you've over-interpreted what he actually said. I'm sure the couple of quid was not the issue, but the fact that the tenant felt it necessary to call the LL for a task that they could have dealt with themselves. Yes, the safety of the property is the LL's obligation, but it's not unreasonable to expect the tenant to handle small tasks like that themselves then have the LL reimburse them for out-of-pocket expenses.

[@allegory6393]

@@akastewart When I used (had) to rent, estate agents would ask me to call maintenance if a battery needed changing. I was categorically told not to do it myself. If I did the landlord's insurance wouldn't pay in case something happened. I'm sure I was not the only tenant to be warned about this. Apart from the fact that many tenants may be unable to change a battery (medical reasons, access reasons, age reasons, etc.), there's also the matter of health and safety rules and who is recognised as responsible for what. Don't go around admonishing tenants (who have next to no rights in the UK) when you don't know the whole story. Had it not been for an inheritance, I'd still be paying my hard earned cash to landlords like that LBC creep.

[@johnsquire66]

reference battery in smoke alarm as a land living 8000 km from the property I asked a tenant to change the battery and he refused so I paid 50gbp for a handyman to change batteries in four smoke alarms. Also another tenant (probably on purpose) broke the bath tub I agreed to pay for a replacement but due to covid the bath replacement man wanted the tenant to measure the broken bath tub, but the tenant refused, so i had to employ a plumber to measure the old bath tub. Everything worked out I had to pay the tenant 4000 gbp and write a paper saying i would not prosecute him in court for the 4000 gbp extortion or the 3000 gbp damage he did by way of breaking window frames and pains and purposefully flooding and scratching laminate floors. Also I had to buy my own fridge from him, and bite my tongue when i noticed him stealing my furniture and the emergency lighting back up system. Another good story was when his microwave broke, from 8000 KM away i arranged for a new microwave and the price included taking the old one away. However, it seems my tenant thought he could sell the old (broken ) microwave so told the delivery man not to take away the old microwave. Then when he failed to sell the old microwave he contacted me and asked me to pay someone to take the old microwave away...Oh yes he also sublet my apt to his boyfriend who threatened to rape me.....could anyone make this up??

[@mgrimble3975]

Not to be part of the landlord crowd but rents across much of the country are nothing like 2k per month I think thats your London centric view tbh. In my local area we are taking like £450-600 per month not to mention that in much of the north the house prices haven't increased since around £2005. It's purely down to the lottery of where you live, now that being said I think property should be a home rather than assets. Sadly there's not a chance the Torys are going to scupper their core vote by tanking the house market by building a new generation of council houses.

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

Maybe he was talking about a flat share but I agree that unless there are at least 3-4 people in there then there is a bit of champagne socialism going on there.

[@Damo2690]

A flat of 4 can easily reach £2000 where I live in Scotland. You won't find a flat for one at less that £750

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

@@Damo2690 I think that is waht we were getting at. If there are 3-4 people then paying £2000 a month doesn't seeem like champage socialism. If it were 2 or less then it probably is. Three seems borderline. What part of Scotland do you live in? I wouldn't be surprised if a 1 bedroom flat in Edinburgh or central Glasgow cost that, but you would never get a 1 bed flat in Hackney for £750 a month.

[@jake751]

£450 a month? Where do you live ?

[@mgrimble3975]

@@jake751 North west Uk

[@_Information_]

I always thought it should be law that landlords have to live in their property for at least 1 month before renting it out to new tenants. All the mould would be gone, all the broken appliances will be fixed during that month I guarantee.

[@MarkL-we8uk]

If this Landlord wants his house vacated so much why does he not give his tenants (who are not in breach of their obligations) a decent financial incentive to move??

[@junky360]

"I'm surprised he can get out of bed in the morning under the weight of his own delusions" 🤣😂 that guy sounded just like one of my old landlords, he would let himself into my room without notice and excuse himself by saying its his house not mine.

[@Infektedshroom]

I love the argument "Look if it's hassle to rent the house, I won't bother, then there won't be houses to rent" - BS - the house still exsists, it's not like the property vanishes! He'll either sell to someone to rent or buy. Rentier class... :/

[@CL32582]

That doesn't make sense. Where do houses come from? A company builds it. That company must hire employees and pay contractors to put it all together, at high upfront cost. If they can't get paid they won't build houses, the supply will decrease and prices go up. After they build the property, another company or individual purchases the house and can rent it out. Because it's a high upfront cost to purchase it, most are taking mortgage loans from banks to buy the house. They're paying interest on this to the bank which is making money off the loan, and they're now renting the property to a tenant to pay the mortgage. It is still passive income for the landlord, and massive selfishness on the part of many egotistical landlords, but the importance of that segment of the housing market is that it provides an ability for someone to have a home. As they mentioned in this video the landlord is probably not making money off the rent, just building equity in their mortgage they're paying. Without companies or landlords taking the risk to build or purchase property, there wouldn't be any homes to rent for people who don't have the capital to buy outright. There are better ways to address housing costs - for instance, government subsidies to firms to build flats at a loss so they can let them to lower income families. I don't understand the complaint about tenants paying rent rather than the landlord. If the tenant can afford the mortgage as easily as the rent, what prevents them from purchasing the house or flat instead?

[@Infektedshroom]

@@CL32582 Total dwellings in the UK 24.41 million in 2019, 170,000 houses built in 2019. That represents 0.7% of the total housing stock. The amount of aboslute change in housing stock change is minimal. It's an easy narrative that we just need to build more, obviously more housing is advantageous however the problem of high house prices is actually mainly a result of easy money. The 2008 financial crisis outcome is money being pumped directly into the economy, this has mainly gone into assests and in patricular house prices. In what universe does it make sense that house prices increase by 10%+ during the effects of Brexit and Covid? Ultra low interest rates feel like a real benefit to people. but truthly it's like any drug - for a while it's a lot of fun - but in the background it's killing you. Raising interest rates will mainly hit those with assets - house prices will come down. When the average house price is £1,000,000 we will have moved back to a society where intergenerational inheritance will be the most signficant thing for someone.

[@joinedupjon]

Damn tenants playing the system by paying their rent.

[@Normanskie]

Sorry, as a retired Environmental Health Officer Private Sector Housing, rightly or wrongly I would be prepared to defend it in a Court of Law. First of all there is a Health and Safety risk assessment on working at heights and the supply and provision of training for working at heights and prevention of accidents in the home, so first of all is the tenant capable and trained to replace a battery, do they fully understand the importance of positive and negative contacts, does the alarm work if the polarity is reversed, is the tenant capable at working at heights and are they physically able bodied and do they have the right equipment to do so and I don't mean a block of wood on top of a chair on top of a table, does the tenant have a signed contract so you except full legal responsibility for any accidents occurring including private medical care and legal responsibility. In addition the fire detector is a fixture and fitting (which would come under normal wear and tear and wouldn't expect you to charge the tenant for the replacement upon vacating the property) and if I was to serve a notice requiring you to undertake a full service form a professionally qualified fire detection engineer I would be somewhat disgusted that would would consider changing the tenant part payment for parts inclusive of the annual check. Also if there was a fire and someone was to die I am sorry that being a landlord is so hard for you but you would more than likely be facing a manslaughter charge. BUT most of all if the battery is a really simple job, get a adder and nip round and do it yourself. It is a good job we never met when was employed but I am sure I have met a lot of your friends. Having not looked at the The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) Assessment but pretty sure there would be enough in there to back me up, which would form part of my prosecution or defense beyond reasonable doubt in a Court of Law or a Housing Tribunal. More importantly I would serve a 21 day notice and if then you hadn't replaced the battery would send a contractor in to undertake a full check and service of the fire safety equipment and sent the bill to our solicitors for recovery.

[@edredwhittingham4417]

Spot on!

[@julielevinge266]

I live in a 3 bedroom council house, next door is privately owned, rented to students, 8 who pay £800 per month each! That’s my rent for entire house per month. So landlord gets extra £5800 per mth!!!

[@dolphine675]

2 years old but so fresh and accurate

[@joefeely5291]

I am a landlord. Properties (I'm thinking residential) have 2 values, exchange and use. In my opinion no property should have exchange value, basically they should not be owned, but allocated on the basis of "reasonable use". This is very unspecific, but not beyond the wit of man to make into a much better system than we have now.

[@Captain_Aardvark]

"Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains - all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is affected by the labour and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of these improvements does the land monopolist contribute, and yet, by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived…The unearned increment on the land is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion, not to the service, but to the disservice done." - Winston Churchill, 1909

[@dwc1964]

If you want to see bitter invective against landlords as a class from an economist, don't look to Karl Marx - look to Adam Smith - he pretty much covered it

[@danielafinizio4380]

My Nan lived in a two bedroom council flat in Hackney until the 90ies. My relatives, the lucky ones, pay rent in Tottenham Hale

[@colinbrigham8253]

Rent control, environmental health with power to get improvements done to start and add landlord registration scheme .

[@WhiteManInAVan]

I know the video is 2 year old now and the video is still relevant today given what's happening to house prices. I became a landlord after losing my job 2 years after buying. I spent over £30k doing the house up and making it liveable. Now i know that becoming a landlord is a choice and i could have chosen to sell the house but at the time I would never have got my money back, so my question is how would you suggest ending landlordism? Its not something I'm against but if people could potentially lose money for buying a house then people wouldn't buy houses or have thousands of houses lying empty. The only answer i can think of is making all houses free. Your thoughts are welcome.

[@HDY0903]

Landlords have worked hard to buy the properties in the first place. Dont blame hard and smart working people who are in a position to acquire properties. Morally it is wrong to kick someone out in a pandemic, but its business at the end of the day

[@davidgriffiths9624]

I still had to pay the mortgage when my rental was not paid and have agreed with my tenant how to recover the amount over the 5years. Not all tenant are bad.

[@grimgoreironhide9985]

Build affordable homes and prevent rich investors and foreigner's from buying it up.

[@1o1s1s1i1e]

I loved the episode of "Raised by Wolves" where Della's landlord was going to sell her house until Grampy discovered asbestos!

[@damindabandara5594]

What about Lloyds Banking Group announcing their intention to become landlords. We're heading towards a generation rent.

[@THC-TheHereticalcomplainer]

My former partner handed in her notice 2 months ago, our landlady took it as joint cancellation, then proceeded to sell the house within days. So as of next week, I'm homeless. She's soo lucky though because house prices have shot up.

[@lorrainehuddart1402]

Well perhaps you should have made it clear to your landlord/lady that it wasn’t your intention to leave. I’m pretty sure they aren’t a mind reader.

[@THC-TheHereticalcomplainer]

@@lorrainehuddart1402 I found out on the same day as my landlady. The next day I expressed my intention to stay and asked her what was going on. She told me that the house was now on the market and I had 2 months. However I was named as the Primary Tennant. Also I've since discovered that during the pandemic I should have 6 months notice. Plus this communication all took lace via text. I have not received Section 21. Since then the housing market in York went insane and I've not yet managed to secure anywhere.

[@paulshinh4334]

We had no rent during pandemic with a loss of 10k so we all not the same

[@chad872]

I had this exact same thing happen lol.... paying rent landlord wants to sell the home... He texts me that he’s fine with me early move out so we do no convenience to myself I’m in the middle of a medical school not exactly prime packing time. now he’s asking for rent the day after we move out for breach of the lease...

[@Ozzy1984_]

Landlords do provide housing for renters, thays a fact. You might prefer the government owned more houses and provided rental properties instead, but landlords do provide housing. Tax changes and SDLT changes have made being a landlord marginally profitable. Most landlords have interest only mortgages and are not paying down the asset. I'd prefer the government built and owned social housing, but for some reason, neither party has done this.

[@dglukesluthier]

Absolutely made my day watching this yesterday

[@Aquarius.]

people want to look into a company called SUSTAIN UK.. it is Registered as a 'NOT FOR PROFIT' company... they apparently have 2121 Tenants (of which some don't even have a Tenancy and can't access bank accounts etc)... the support workers scream and shout at the prisoners that are forced to tolerate such cruelty without movement, yet this company gets around £258 per person per wk from the PUBLIC PURSE.... they have even just sold their business (apparently) !!!!!!!!!

[@princeofchetarria5375]

If landlords have a problem with tenants, they can just stop buying second homes. If tenants have a problem with landlords, there’s nothing they can do.

[@randyvalantino6850]

A landlord gives a tenant a tenancy agreement normally 6 months at the end of that 6 months the landlord can ask for the property back . The tenant knows this from day one . The tenant can move out after 6 months if they want to . The landlord can ask for the house back after 6 months . Its a very even thing i see no problem .

[@hlund73]

@@randyvalantino6850 It would be if there was a surplus of homes. There isn't, so we're all paying over the odds in every aspect of our lives just for the benefit of those that cash in on property value inflation.

[@randyvalantino6850]

@@hlund73 I agree so bashing landlords makes no sense if some landlords sell up all that happens is that we have less private rentals so rents go up because of lack of competition.. If you don't pay your mortgage the bank repossess the house If you don't pay your rent the landlord will take his house back. I pay my bills .

[@allegory6393]

@@randyvalantino6850 Those evicted pay their bills too. Had there been a proper housing policy, people like you would still be parasite rentiers only not allowed to grow so fat. Building social housing units and rent controls is what proper democratic governments do, but thankfully for you governments are Ponzi schemers that allow the likes of you to play the system which they put in place for the likes of you to profit from. The parasitic economy that devours everything and kills the real, productive economy.

[@Starstel]

Spot on.

[@trilit2]

We got or eviction notice despite the ban on it. Ant then a court case for missing rent while we where about to evicted and the landlord refused to get the only toilet fixed but still expecting 2000 a month.

[@mikemacfadyen1972]

In London, housing is a racket. People paying studio rental rates for temporary accommodation. In London especially. Everybody talks about homelessness as people with substance abuse and drug problems but it is the fact that big companies profit from homelessness not deal with it.

[@pascaldj]

I don’t get this harshness towards landlords my mother and father both rent out houses but they both worked and are still working they butts off, they are not rolling in money they just want something to fall back on for when they retire.

[@joinedupjon]

A lot of people, me included have had landlords who aren't classic 'bad landlords' like Rachman... but they'll try and stall for weeks if the heating and hot water fails for the tenant. They'll hit the roof if the rents a couple of days late and drag their feet keeping up their side of the bargain. They're on the good side of an unfair deal. An inherent part of what the tenant is paying half their wages for is not having the shock of paying for heating or hot water boiler repairs hanging over them.

[@grimgoreironhide9985]

Unless you are a Renter who also to deal with Letting Agents and Landlords then you will never understand.

[@pascaldj]

@@grimgoreironhide9985 I am a renter thank you very much and I have had a Lord lord who wasn’t that great and possibly have a shit land Lord now, but I’m just saying that not all land lords are bad.

[@kennethatkins9250]

It should all be in the lease/retal agreement . Read the detail before agreeing to it .

[@thomasf103]

Landlords piss me off. How can anyone settle anywhere if they cannot buy a home? If you can afford rent comfortably and still face risks of eviction because the landlord wants to do something different with the property, there's no hope for finding a secure place to live.

[@kennethmarshall306]

You are right. And I am a landlord.

[@creelbait]

I wonder if any of Ash Sarkars family or relatives are landlords. Well......that would be hypocrisy wouldnt it.

[@chas453]

Sarkar and Walker are just jealous of landlords and angry about it .

[@TheAdeybob]

Terrible. 6 months ago, my 'landlord' (a horrible term) kicked off with eviction proceedings after I asked for some serious repairs to be done. Geezer and his family rake it in from hundreds of rentals..many of them run-down, with LHA tenants who are grateful just to have a roof over their heads. The system allows and encourages rogue landlords to rip the piss out of it.

[@Jeevanm71]

Mao has entered the chat

[@jpofgwynedd3878]

If you need to mortgage to get your next property to rent, you aren't wealthy enough to be a landlord. Of you can't afford to delay rent payments for ar least a year, you aren't wealthy enough to be a landlord. If you can't write of the property against taxes next year and then work something out with the tenants, you're in the wrong business and should should stick to writing with crayons. These people have ideas above their intellectual capacity, and deserve diddley. It's simple. But hey, Thatcher told them they could have it... Yeah. She also had dementia: and it usuall starts kicking in about the age of 40.

[@easytoassemble54321]

Funny how those landlords that complain about not being rich from their endeavour, aren't tempted to sell their house/s, even though prices have never been higher. The reason is, they are accruing an asset, and it's probably one of the only forms of passive income that exists. Even a person that rents out their parent's old house knows exactly what they are doing. Becoming a landlord doesn't happen by accident or under duress.

[@akastewart]

"it's probably one of the only forms of passive income that exists" Residential property is only one form of asset investment. Any market-based property can serve as an asset that can potentially support a passive income. Stocks, shares, bonds, art, …

[@chas453]

@@akastewart Or getting bestsellers published !

[@simonevans343]

Too many people jumped aboard the buy to rent gravy train . Not aware of obligations that go with it. Houses can be sold with sitting tennants and often are. This guy wants the benefits of both types of ownership. Not just working class people rent houses

[@edivimaro1975]

While I don't always agree with your viewpoints, I genuinely respect your output. You are the counter narrative that every healthy democracy needs.

[@steveknott4255]

In the old days when we all lived in council houses if we became unemployed our rent was rebated as the housing benefit was paid by the council to the council now a privileged class now gets a big fat cheque off them once a month and a lot of these low rent properties were built originally as social housing

[@stevechappell5777]

Your 'old days' never existed, I'm afraid. There were always more affluent people who owned their homes. They weren't all lords and ladies but maybe just professional people who saved and converted their money into bricks and mortar while others bought cars, nights out and foreign holidays. There was no golden age where you were allowed to not pay rent without good cause. It is not socialism to have some citizens carried by the rest but some have always milked the system choosing to be carried rather than bear their own load. That you want to paint landlords as ogres is a little crass, 'cos they are the ones providing homes when the govt clearly isn't doing so. You could try electing MPs who have a manifesto pledge to create a housing stock but do you think they will be rent free?

[@tomMXBN]

@@stevechappell5777 well said mate. Thanks. In amazing how people still think everything should be free in 2021

[@stevechappell5777]

@@tomMXBN Appreciate your comment. Thanks.

[@smwk2017]

The problem needs to be passed upwards as well. Banks will need to stop charging mortgage interest and foreclosure. Cities will need to stop or delay charging property taxes. Otherwise, many landlords will get in trouble as well.

[@gregprocter765]

yeah no need for working fire alarm not like you need to protect the tenants after all and the house is insured so no biggie.

[@malakacanedemane1024]

Brilliant as usual from Ash, but we must be aware when we're talking about issues around housing that we don't just consider it a working class problem. It is a problem for anyone who does not have secure and affordable place to live, regardless of which social class was thrust upon then by whoever it is that decides.